The People of Ancient Israel is an introduction to the history and civilization of Israel from its first beginnings with Abraham in the land of Ur, up to and including the destruction of the Temple, and further into the time of the first beginnings of Christianity. Dorothy Mills again makes history a vital thing and historians, statesmen, and poets of the ancient world living figures. Dorothy Mills had an uncanny and unique ability to write history that is interesting and at the same time based on sound scholarship. Her direct, engaging approach is valued increasingly by the many parents in...

The Book of the Ancient Greeks is an introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in ad 146. Dorothy Mills again makes history a vital thing and historians, statesmen, and poets of the ancient world living figures. The author s aim in her two books on the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans has been to use such parts of the political history of the Greeks and Romans, of their literature, and of their art as seem to have been the outward and visible signs of the spirit that inspired them. With this book is concluded...